Lifestyle: mobile phones: how to create a newline when texting (Android, Nexus 4)

The tutor delivers the goods about how to create vertical space in a text.

I don’t text very often, but much more than before. I’m learning how to do it better.

Whatever message I’m sending, be it a solution on the white board or just a simple text, I like lots of white space: it can be an important organizational tool in messages.

Trying to send a text today, I wanted a blank line between two sentences, but couldn’t see how to do so. The native keyboard on my Nexus 4 doesn’t present a carriage return – at first. Yet, I knew it could be done easily, somehow.

I checked several websites where the question was asked, but not satisfactorily answered for my case. Then, at forums.lenovo.com, I did find the answer – although not until page 2.

On a keyboard like mine, if you hold down the Caps arrow, the smiley face at bottom right converts to a carriage return. On mine, to get the carriage return to stay there long enough to press it, the Caps arrow needs to be tapped twice (it seems, anyway).

Happy texting!

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.

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